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HomeAway leads $20 million investment round in Gogobot

By Nick Vivion | November 12, 2014

Vacation rental service HomeAway has doubled-down on content, reviews and recommendations for its guests by leading a $20 million Series C investment round in social review engine Gogobot. Other pa... Read More

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Orbitz CEO names mobile and loyalty as key to growth

By Nick Vivion | November 12, 2014

After posting strong Q3 results, Orbitz Worldwide CEO Barney Harford names "industry-best" loyalty program and early mobile strategy as keys to growth. The comments were made during a one-on-one inte... Read More

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Startup Pitch: Zipkick prioritises B2B/B2C curation algorithm

By Martin Cowen | November 12, 2014

Zipkick is a travel search and booking site with a relatively straightforward proposition - curated results based on preferences, easily booked. The business is based in San Francisco and was found... Read More

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One small step for TripAdvisor, one giant leap for tours and activities

By Stephen Joyce | November 12, 2014

I wrote a post almost two years ago to the day titled Putting the supplier cart before the distributor horse in travel. In that article in November 2012, I outlined a basic structure for connecting... Read More

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A year in Russian online travel - politics, games and investments

By Viewpoints | November 12, 2014

It's fair to say the travel industry won’t be the same in Russia after 2014. The year was full of shocking events that might entirely change the landscape of Russian economics in general and the trave... Read More

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Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on what's working, what's not

By Sean O'Neil | November 12, 2014

Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Expedia Inc, has been attending the PhoCusWright Conference in LA this year, where he’s one of the star speakers. Khosrowshahi took a break to speak with Tnooz about how E... Read More

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Personalizing travel search: How data leads to happier travelers

By Margaret Ady | November 11, 2014

An overdue evolution is happening in travel search, especially in the hotel sector. NB: This is an analysis by Margaret Ady, vice president of marketing at TrustYou. Frankly, it’s hard to imagin... Read More

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Sabre posts close to 7% revenue climb for first nine months of 2014

By Kevin May | November 11, 2014

Sabre saw revenues across the group increase by 9% in the third quarter of 2014, with the year-to-date coming in at 6.6%. The company's revenues for 2014 so far have reached $1.968 billion, up from... Read More

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Simpler search, single purpose apps and other mobile travel takeaways

By Linda Fox | November 11, 2014

At some point or other, most of us will have heard that mobile is just another channel. Yet many now see it as much more than that. From a Facebook point of view, it has become more of a human beha... Read More

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Conxxe brings experience to global ground transportation land grab

By Kevin May | November 11, 2014

After years operating under the Holiday Taxis brand, Conxxe is the company's push into the burgeoning world of ground transportation on a worldwide scale. The service is being launched this week to c... Read More

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Looking for a metatrend - Euromonitor goes tech-crazy

By Martin Cowen | November 11, 2014

Euromonitor International's annual trends report, released at World Travel Market last week, was more about digital than destinations, highlighting braggies, online rail bookings, transactional instan... Read More

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A key Canaan VC talks travel startup investing

By Sean O'Neil | November 11, 2014

At this year’s PhoCusWright Conference in Los Angeles, the investment firm Canaan Partners is out in force, meeting and greeting. One of its VCs is Brendan Dickinson, who earlier this year became a... Read More

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After unveiling API, Viator to move from curated to open platform

By Sean O'Neil | November 10, 2014

Since 2005, CEO Barrie Seidenberg has led Viator, a tours-and-activities marketplace, that has been relatively selective in the products it lists. She's guided the company to a solid foothold as th... Read More

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Blacklane online car service raises seven-figure Euro investment round

By Kevin May | November 10, 2014

Germany-based ground transportation brand Blacklane has captured a "mid-seven-digit" round of funding from RGIP. The company, which provides private car services in 150 cities around the world, cla... Read More

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Marriott free wifi plan labelled anti-corporate travel

By Kevin May | November 10, 2014

Free wifi for all members of a Marriott loyalty programme should be a cause for celebration, right? Think again. The global hotel chain announced last week that it will provide free wifi to th... Read More

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